[furicane]

I second this.

Without going into what I've tried and yadda yadda yadda, white noise, my credentials and so on - PHPStorm id the IDE. No Atom / VSCode or whatever can't compare. You get ctrl+click go to definition, you get ssh terminal, you get XDebug integration, it plays with Vue/ES6/React, you get MySQL integration, Vagrant integration, extensions to get VIM bindings and so on. Next to proper keyboard, monitor and mouse - buying PHPStorm is hands down one best money spent when it comes to what I work with every day.

I'm NOT saying "you can't get X with Y editor which is free" - sure, I believe you can, but this thing completely satisfies my every requirement and I don't have to spend time looking for integration extension or whatever. It saved me a ton of time so far, it will do so in future - I approve it, however I don't think anyone's editor "sucks and you should go with PHPStorm". Everyone should go for what they think brings them the best experience / value.

[busterarm]

Third it.

I'm not even an IDE -- I'm a strict Vim user, but when I had to work in PHP I found the experience to be very nice. Especially integrating with the debugger.

JetBrains' stuff is top notch and I will buy their IDE for any language I work in, even if I don't use it very often.

[larzang]

Yeah, PHPStorm is a mediocre to terrible text editor but an amazing IDE. I used Sublime Text for many years prior and PHPStorm can't even come close in terms of ease of keyboard navigation, responsiveness, multi-file organization, etc BUT after 3 years of PHPStorm I won't use anything else.